ERPC Restocks a Limited Number of Premium Bare-Metal Servers for Solana Applications in the Amsterdam Region, Maximizing Production Performance on a Core Network Built by the History of Financial Internet Infrastructure
ERPC Restocks a Limited Number of Premium Bare-Metal Servers for Solana Applications in the Amsterdam Region, Maximizing Production Performance on a Core Network Built by the History of Financial Internet Infrastructure
ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO, operators of ERPC, have restocked a limited number of premium bare-metal servers for Solana applications in the Amsterdam (AMS) region.
This configuration is part of ERPC’s premium line, which has repeatedly sold out in a short period of time every time it has been made available. The number of servers that can be provisioned immediately remains limited.
The newly restocked servers are deployed within the network where Solana stake is most highly concentrated in the Amsterdam region.
The newly restocked servers are deployed within the network where Solana stake is most highly concentrated in the Amsterdam region.
ERPC selects this configuration as a premium line by examining where and how the conditions required to consistently reproduce stable results in Solana production environments have been formed, from both the historical and structural perspectives of the financial internet.
What “Performance” Means in Solana Applications
In real-world Solana application environments, transaction submission, detection, Shreds-related processing, and backend processing occur simultaneously.
Submission and detection run in parallel, and detected results are immediately reflected in subsequent submission decisions and backend workflows. These processes continue in a state of mutual dependency, rather than as isolated, one-off operations.
Submission and detection run in parallel, and detected results are immediately reflected in subsequent submission decisions and backend workflows. These processes continue in a state of mutual dependency, rather than as isolated, one-off operations.
In this environment, outcomes are not determined by raw computational performance alone.
Latency ceilings and distribution are defined by which network the servers belong to, which paths communication takes, and how far communication can be completed without traversing external routes.
Latency ceilings and distribution are defined by which network the servers belong to, which paths communication takes, and how far communication can be completed without traversing external routes.
Shorter communication distances and simpler paths reduce absolute latency and suppress variance.
When communication traverses the public internet, paths become longer and are exposed to congestion points and route changes. When communication is completed entirely within the same network, it can be sustained under consistent conditions without relying on external paths.
When communication traverses the public internet, paths become longer and are exposed to congestion points and route changes. When communication is completed entirely within the same network, it can be sustained under consistent conditions without relying on external paths.
In Solana, performance refers to whether latency and success-rate distributions remain stable and whether the same results can be produced continuously under these communication conditions.
To satisfy these requirements, high-quality hardware, strong operational conditions, and short communication paths must all be present at the same time.
ERPC selects locations and configurations where all three conditions are simultaneously met.
ERPC selects locations and configurations where all three conditions are simultaneously met.
High-Performance Data Centers Were Built Before Blockchains
The data centers and networks that deliver high performance today were not formed over a short period of time.
Financial systems have long operated in environments where latency and jitter directly affect transaction outcomes and manifest as losses. As a result, requirements such as communication speed, path stability, failure recovery, power redundancy, and operational maturity have been imposed for decades.
Financial systems have long operated in environments where latency and jitter directly affect transaction outcomes and manifest as losses. As a result, requirements such as communication speed, path stability, failure recovery, power redundancy, and operational maturity have been imposed for decades.
To meet these demands, sustained investments have been made in dedicated intercity and inter-site lines, increased interconnection density, redundant power and facility designs, and operations built around failure assumptions.
Such quality is accumulated by continuously improving facilities, networks, and operations over long periods of time.
Such quality is accumulated by continuously improving facilities, networks, and operations over long periods of time.
These investments have been accumulated as the foundation supporting financial systems that require low latency and reproducibility.
The requirements of Solana production environments align with the conditions built by this foundation in terms of low latency, high frequency, continuous processing, and tolerance to external disturbances.
ERPC designs and selects infrastructure based on the premise that this alignment directly determines real-world results.
The requirements of Solana production environments align with the conditions built by this foundation in terms of low latency, high frequency, continuous processing, and tolerance to external disturbances.
ERPC designs and selects infrastructure based on the premise that this alignment directly determines real-world results.
The Shift of Gravity in the United States and the Rise of Chicago
Solana Labs is headquartered in San Francisco and also maintains an office in New York.
As a result, during the early stages of the ecosystem, nodes and participants were primarily distributed across the West Coast and the East Coast.
As a result, during the early stages of the ecosystem, nodes and participants were primarily distributed across the West Coast and the East Coast.
However, as performance has been pursued in real Solana production environments, the center of gravity has shifted toward locations where network results are actually achieved.
This shift reflects convergence driven by the pursuit of performance.
This shift reflects convergence driven by the pursuit of performance.
One of the convergence points in the United States has been Chicago.
Chicago is located near the geographic center of the continental United States, allowing the maximum communication distance to any region, east, west, north, or south, to be constrained.
This geographic property stabilizes latency distributions for nationwide communication.
Chicago is located near the geographic center of the continental United States, allowing the maximum communication distance to any region, east, west, north, or south, to be constrained.
This geographic property stabilizes latency distributions for nationwide communication.
Based on this inherent potential, Chicago has seen decades of investment centered on financial use cases.
As a financial city hosting one of the world’s largest derivatives markets, continuous investments have been made to enable low-latency trading, including shortening communication distances, fixing and redundantly provisioning routes, and building extensive dedicated-line networks.
As a financial city hosting one of the world’s largest derivatives markets, continuous investments have been made to enable low-latency trading, including shortening communication distances, fixing and redundantly provisioning routes, and building extensive dedicated-line networks.
The key point is that geography and investment are connected.
Because Chicago offered favorable nationwide communication characteristics, investments in dedicated lines, interconnection, power, and facilities concentrated there.
These investments further improved network quality, ultimately establishing Chicago as a location where production performance can be reliably achieved.
Because Chicago offered favorable nationwide communication characteristics, investments in dedicated lines, interconnection, power, and facilities concentrated there.
These investments further improved network quality, ultimately establishing Chicago as a location where production performance can be reliably achieved.
The accumulated investments continue to benefit later workloads.
Dedicated-line networks, dense interconnections, redundant power and facilities, and mature operational designs function as a performance foundation for Solana’s high-frequency, low-latency production environments.
The history of investment defines present-day production performance.
Dedicated-line networks, dense interconnections, redundant power and facilities, and mature operational designs function as a performance foundation for Solana’s high-frequency, low-latency production environments.
The history of investment defines present-day production performance.
In practice, performance-focused projects have increasingly clustered in Chicago.
A representative example is that major operators such as Coinbase and Jupiter, one of the largest DeFi platforms on Solana, moved their validator bases to Chicago.
This reflects a judgment grounded in the history of U.S. financial infrastructure and the locations where network performance is actually delivered.
A representative example is that major operators such as Coinbase and Jupiter, one of the largest DeFi platforms on Solana, moved their validator bases to Chicago.
This reflects a judgment grounded in the history of U.S. financial infrastructure and the locations where network performance is actually delivered.
The concentration of Solana validators in the United States has been formed through this long-term process of movement and convergence.
Chicago continues to be selected because both its geographic conditions and the investments built upon them demonstrably contribute to production results.
Chicago continues to be selected because both its geographic conditions and the investments built upon them demonstrably contribute to production results.
Frankfurt and Amsterdam as the Centers of Europe
The same structural pattern exists in Europe.
Frankfurt and Amsterdam form the core of Europe’s network and financial infrastructure.
Frankfurt and Amsterdam form the core of Europe’s network and financial infrastructure.
In terms of factual distribution, Frankfurt hosts the largest concentration of Solana validators globally, followed by Amsterdam as the second largest.
This distribution reflects the result of long-term network and data center investment, rather than a short-term anomaly.
This distribution reflects the result of long-term network and data center investment, rather than a short-term anomaly.
Both cities have developed as financial infrastructure hubs and have accumulated extremely dense international traffic and internet exchange points.
Located near the center of the European continent, they provide multiple high-capacity routes in all directions, allowing short communication paths to be maintained even during congestion or failures.
Located near the center of the European continent, they provide multiple high-capacity routes in all directions, allowing short communication paths to be maintained even during congestion or failures.
London plays a major role as a financial city, but its island geography requires communication with continental Europe to traverse subsea cables.
From the perspectives of equal-distance reach across Europe and route density, Frankfurt and Amsterdam offer conditions that are advantageous in production environments.
From the perspectives of equal-distance reach across Europe and route density, Frankfurt and Amsterdam offer conditions that are advantageous in production environments.
In Solana, block leaders rotate frequently and the origin of communication moves across the network.
Under this structure, production results depend on how much time communication can be completed over short paths relative to the moving origin.
Due to their interconnection density and geographic position, Frankfurt and Amsterdam are well suited to satisfy this requirement.
Under this structure, production results depend on how much time communication can be completed over short paths relative to the moving origin.
Due to their interconnection density and geographic position, Frankfurt and Amsterdam are well suited to satisfy this requirement.
The Meaning of the Restocked Amsterdam Premium Configuration
The restocked Amsterdam premium bare-metal servers have been selected based on these conditions.
They are deployed within the network where Solana stake is most highly concentrated in the Amsterdam region, allowing communication to complete without traversing the public internet.
They are deployed within the network where Solana stake is most highly concentrated in the Amsterdam region, allowing communication to complete without traversing the public internet.
Short communication distances and simple paths reduce latency and suppress variance.
In Solana production environments, detection, submission, and surrounding processes occur simultaneously, so increases in communication latency propagate directly through the system.
Communication distance and path characteristics therefore influence outcomes with the same weight as hardware performance.
In Solana production environments, detection, submission, and surrounding processes occur simultaneously, so increases in communication latency propagate directly through the system.
Communication distance and path characteristics therefore influence outcomes with the same weight as hardware performance.
This configuration is built on the following components:
- Ryzen 9 7950X / 9950X
- ECC DDR5 memory
- NVMe Gen4 storage
- Dedicated network connectivity
- Bare-metal architecture without virtualization overhead
Maintaining high-quality hardware under strong operational conditions while keeping communication paths as short as possible is the prerequisite for consistently reproducing results in Solana production.
ERPC selects placements and configurations that meet this prerequisite based on real production outcomes.
ERPC selects placements and configurations that meet this prerequisite based on real production outcomes.
Why Inventory Shortages Persist
Resources that simultaneously satisfy same-network deployment, sufficient bandwidth, stable operational policies, and dense interconnection are physically limited.
Infrastructure formed through decades of investment cannot be expanded over short timeframes simply in response to increased demand.
Rack space, power, facilities, circuits, and operational maturity all exist only as the result of accumulated effort.
Infrastructure formed through decades of investment cannot be expanded over short timeframes simply in response to increased demand.
Rack space, power, facilities, circuits, and operational maturity all exist only as the result of accumulated effort.
Why Scarcity Will Continue to Increase
Demand is increasing simultaneously across high-performance internet applications, financial systems, and AI workloads.
This surge in demand has led to constraints on foundational resources such as the latest-generation CPUs, memory, power capacity, and rack space.
This surge in demand has led to constraints on foundational resources such as the latest-generation CPUs, memory, power capacity, and rack space.
CPU and memory manufacturing capacities are limited, while data centers require significant time to expand power delivery, cooling, and facilities.
As a result, workloads that require high performance face increasingly constrained resource availability.
As a result, workloads that require high performance face increasingly constrained resource availability.
Under these conditions, the value of core regions such as Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Chicago is expected to continue rising.
ERPC will continue securing and providing resources based on the premise that these conditions directly determine production outcomes.
ERPC will continue securing and providing resources based on the premise that these conditions directly determine production outcomes.
Inventory Status and Inquiries
The restocked premium bare-metal servers in the Amsterdam region are available in limited quantities.
For inquiries regarding deployment requirements, current availability, or optimal configurations, please contact us via the Validators DAO Official Discord.
For inquiries regarding deployment requirements, current availability, or optimal configurations, please contact us via the Validators DAO Official Discord.
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